An older person in Louisiana exposed to bird flu from a backyard flock is now hospitalized with a "severe" case of avian influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

On Wednesday the CDC said that a patient has been hospitalized with a severe case of the avian influenza virus, or the "bird flu," in Louisiana. This case was confirmed by the CDC on Friday ...

A Louisiana man has become the first person in the United States to die of avian influenza, state health officials reported Monday. The patient, who was older than 65 and had underlying medical ...

A patient in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, or bird flu), has died, health officials announced on Monday. The death was ...

HPAI has had the greatest impact on pullets and egg-laying poultry, where bird housing density is higher, said Dr. Lisa ...

The patient in Louisiana was infected with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, which is a virus that can infect both birds and mammals. The virus in this particular patient revealed genetic ...

A person in Louisiana has contracted the nation's first ... case in India – a 4-year-old who was infected with the H9N2 avian flu virus. A bird flu outbreak is affecting several dairy herds ...

The first positive bird flu case among domestic poultry in New Jersey since 2023 was discovered at a live bird market in ...

Ostriches on a British Columbia farm have died of the avian flu. Canada ordered hundreds of others to be culled. But two top ...